The seasonal snow cover dynamics: review on wind-driven coupling processes

R Mott, V Vionnet, T Grünewald - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The temporal evolution of seasonal snow cover and its spatial variability in environments
such as mountains, prairies or polar regions is strongly influenced by the interactions …

Representing spatial variability of snow water equivalent in hydrologic and land‐surface models: A review

MP Clark, J Hendrikx, AG Slater… - Water Resources …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This paper evaluates the use of field data on the spatial variability of snow water equivalent
(SWE) to guide the design of distributed snow models. An extensive reanalysis of results …

[LLIBRE][B] LiDAR remote sensing and applications

P Dong, Q Chen - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
Ideal for both undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of geography, forestry,
ecology, geographic information science, remote sensing, and photogrammetric …

Sediment export, transient landscape response and catchment-scale connectivity following rapid climate warming and Alpine glacier recession

SN Lane, M Bakker, C Gabbud, N Micheletti, JN Saugy - Geomorphology, 2017 - Elsevier
In the face of rapid climate warming, rapid glacier recession should lead to a marked
increase in the spatial extent of the paraglacial zone in glaciated drainage basins. The …

Spatial and temporal variability of snow depth and ablation rates in a small mountain catchment

T Grünewald, M Schirmer, R Mott, M Lehning - The Cryosphere, 2010 - tc.copernicus.org
The spatio-temporal variability of the mountain snow cover determines the avalanche
danger, snow water storage, permafrost distribution and the local distribution of fauna and …

Improving snow water equivalent maps with machine learning of snow survey and lidar measurements

PD Broxton, WJD Van Leeuwen… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In the semiarid interior western USA, where a majority of surface water supply comes from
mountain forests, high‐resolution aerial lidar‐based surveys are commonly used to study …

Elevation dependency of mountain snow depth

T Grünewald, Y Bühler, M Lehning - The Cryosphere, 2014 - tc.copernicus.org
Elevation strongly affects quantity and distribution patterns of precipitation and snow.
Positive elevation gradients were identified by many studies, usually based on data from …

Persistence in intra‐annual snow depth distribution: 1. Measurements and topographic control

M Schirmer, V Wirz, A Clifton… - Water Resources …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Terrestrial and airborne laser scanning (TLS and ALS) techniques have only recently
developed to the point where they allow wide‐area measurements of snow distribution in …

Using a fixed-wing UAS to map snow depth distribution: an evaluation at peak accumulation

C De Michele, F Avanzi, D Passoni, R Barzaghi… - The …, 2016 - tc.copernicus.org
We investigate snow depth distribution at peak accumulation over a small Alpine area (∼
0.3 km 2) using photogrammetry-based surveys with a fixed-wing unmanned aerial system …

Understanding snow-transport processes sha** the mountain snow-cover

R Mott, M Schirmer, M Bavay, T Grünewald… - The …, 2010 - tc.copernicus.org
Mountain snow-cover is normally heterogeneously distributed due to wind and precipitation
interacting with the snow cover on various scales. The aim of this study was to investigate …